Envy: One Sin, Seven Stories An Installation by Adrien Broom

Description

Envy: One Sin, Seven Stories, an installation by Adrien Broom, includes a Portrait Gallery of Fairy Tale Characters, and photographs from famous stories Cinderella, Snow White, and others less known. Get tangled in a “Web of Envy,” with objects that portray beauty, wealth, or power. Three Stage Sets come to life throughout the Summer in Gallery Stage performance.

Adrien Broom lives and works in Brooklyn and is an artist with a penchant for the bizarre and beautiful. She took a degree in computer animation from Northeastern University and studied fine art in Florence and art history in London. Broom’s photographs have been featured in numerous exhibitions in Connecticut and New York City, as well as in the American Dreamers exhibition at the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence in 2012. The exhibion Envy is organized by the Hudson River Museum and curated by Bartholomew Bland, the Museum’s Deputy Director.

Envy is part of The Seven Deadly Sins, the inaugural exhibition of the Fairfield/Westchester Museum Alliance (FWMA), a cultural collaboration begun in 2009. Each member organization presents one of the seven deadly sins, from spring to fall, 2015. Sin, the favorite subject of poets and painters, also provides grist for FWMA’s provocative summer programming, which is offered to the public and FREE to the members of FWMA organizations.